This is old news to me. I saw the "Spiral Ramp" idea on either the History Channel or The Discovery Channel at least a couple years ago. The show even had a CGI model of the spiral ramp.
This article makes me so proud that my Dad went to the University of Nebraska. Go Cornhuskers!!
On the other hand, it makes me sad that I went to a college that was so happy to help the RIAA when I uploaded a home-made parody of a Justin Timberlake song that I'm now in debtors prison. Thanks a lot!
No, no... there is a way around it. 90% of people leave their router on the default channel 6. You can avoid the interference caused by routers on channel 6 by using a channel other than channel 6!! Try channel 7 or 8 or 9!!
Just ignore everyone elses posts, there's a very very easy fix.
I too have seen areas with as many as 20 wireless access points in congested areas. You think this would be difficult to overcome but its not because most people aren't that tech savy. Everyone leaves their router on the default channel, which for virtually every brand is channel 6. Try different channels, starting with one higher than six, until you get one where the net is "highly responsive".
I don't really think you're calculating efficiency correctly. By your calculations, something that is twice as efficient as a device thats 80% efficient would be 160% efficient. I'm pretty sure the number would be closer to 90%. Twice as efficient as 90%, I think would be closer to 95% instead of your 320% and so forth...
I'm not really sure of the exact mathematical equation.
10,000 times more efficient does seem pretty ludicrous though.
I don't think they'll mind because the extra energy required to bend a microscopically thin layer of protein would not cause any noticeable extra strain or require any noticeable extra exertion. The astronaut could work for several hours with the protein suit and come back not feeling any more tired than with a standard suit.
What it comes down to is you cannot tax illegal behaviour. Our courts would never accept it.
I don't know about tax law in Canada but in the US taxing illegal behavior is common practice. United States tax law specifically states that you are supposed to report the "fair-market value" of any goods or property which you took illegally ("stole") as income so that you can be taxed properly for it.
Its quite obvious that the high-strung nut-jobs in Boston over-reacted. The EXACT SAME ads were in Atlanta for a week before they were installed in Boston and on the very first night in Boston people were crying that it was 9/11 times a million!!! They didn't even bother taking the ads in Atlanta down until a couple of days after everybody freaked out in Boston and still not a single person thought they were a bomb.
Record Industry Meets in Las Vegas for Conference Reuters
Record Industry Execs from all four major record labels are meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada today to discuss the future of of CD sales. Wild speculation indicates that CD prices will be lowered due to increased competitive pressure from online sources.
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Sony-BMG Sales Tycoon Oliver Klosoff was quoted as he left the conference hall "I'm happy with our new pricing figures. They will be considerably lower than our original 1986 prices after inflation is taken into account." He also added "We are also planning to implement Iraq insurgency style death-squads to manage any record store that fails to adhere to our strict $33.86 per CD policy."
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UMG Chief Executive, Holden Magroin, stopped shortly to answer reporters questions. When asked to explain how the record industry hopes to enforce its strict pricing policy after facing multiple price fixing allegations, Mr. Magroin responded by having a hit placed on the reporters family.
The ads were also in Atlanta. Some were up for a week, clearly visible and nearby major office buildings. Nobody thought they were bombs. Most were stolen as souvenirs. Some remained up until a couple of days AFTER the Boston freak-out.
Cartoon Network also placed a simmilar number of the Light-Brite ads in Atlanta, Georgia at the same time. Nobody thought they were bombs. Although, they quickly disappeared because people were stealing them as Souvenirs.
Not only is the "Free Software Foundation" over-reacting, they're displaying an unbalanced reaction compared to how they deal with other Linux distributions. For instance, there's a hardly known company that goes by the name "SCO" which distributes Caldera Linux. This "SCO" is zelously suing Linux in general, claiming they own all code in the universe. Yet, this "Free Software Foundation" is saying jack-squat about Caldera and "SCO".
720p DVD players have been available for a long, long time. Years. But I don't actually know if they look better than 480p DVD players. I'm using a 480p DVD player and the quality is comparable to anything on 1080i "high-definition" cable TV. Even older 480i DVD players are a massive improvement over analog broadcast TV. And why are you even talking about 4x3 formatted DVD's... buy the 16x9 formatted DVD's... genius
Personally I think both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD will fail just like both formats to replace CD's failed. DVD-Audio would have had a chance if they made it compatible with... DVD players! And, coincidentally, I've noticed quite a few CD's (Queen's re-release of "A Night at the Opera" and Weird Al Yankovic's latest album) being put out that include an extra DVD will all the music encoded in 192KHz, 5.1 surround sound and playable on a standard DVD player. Sounds really awesome through my DVD player hooked up by optical audio to my 5.1 Kenwood surround sound system with the TV turned off. Plus more and more cars are being built with DVD video players included, so it should be possible to play just the audio from a DVD and have the video turned off while you drive.
Thats right, not only do I think that standard video DVD's will win the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray war but I think they'll win the next generation Audio-CD war. Don't you call me crazy...
The 6808 micro-controller (long version of the name is M9S08GB60) would be excellent for teaching a class on robotics. As its been around since the dawn of time, there's a lot of support readily available for it. Complete, detailed reference manuals are freely available, Freescale will even ship printed copies to you for free. Compilers are available that allow you to program in your choice of assembly, C, or C+. The "M68DEMO908GB60" demo board is available from many online retailers for around $50 which makes it easier to use the microcontroller for prototyping as well as experimentation and class labs.
What lends the 6808 microcontroller is its Pulse-Width-Modulation components (it has 2 modules, one with 5 channels and the other with 3 channels and all channels can be set up for either incoming our outgoing). In addition to all that it runs up to 40MHz without cooling and includes 4K of RAM and 60K of ROM all on-die, so no extra chips for those. It has more power than you could ever hope to use in a class-room.
The microwave steralizes the wet sponge because it makes the water hot enough to kill anything living. The same effect can be had by dunking the sponge in a pot of boiling water.
I'm pretty sure all Classic Amigas can run Amiga Linux, a rarely heard of flavor of Linux. And AmigaOne's can run pretty much any PPC Linux without any problems.
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Check your Amiga's for NiCad batteries on the motherboard. They are usually green and barrel shaped. You need to remove them as soon as possible
For everyone who says Amiga is a dead platform... if an Amiga is dead then it was probably killed by leaky NiCad battery acid.
I was just reading that the Amiga was used to create the special effects for Star Trek: Voyager (including the intro credits used for the entire duration of the series). It feels like Star Trek: Voyager wasn't that long ago. But I guess its been a while.
My dead-man's switch simultaneously emails, faxes, and snail-mail's irrefutable proof of intelligent alien life to EVERY major blogger in the world. Naturally, major news outlets aren't worthy of this information once I've passed on.
I was going after the PC version... Best Buy, EB Games, and Fry's Electronics in Georgia seem to have all gotten their PC version when the 360 version was supposed to be released.
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This is old news to me. I saw the "Spiral Ramp" idea on either the History Channel or The Discovery Channel at least a couple years ago. The show even had a CGI model of the spiral ramp.
This article makes me so proud that my Dad went to the University of Nebraska. Go Cornhuskers!!
On the other hand, it makes me sad that I went to a college that was so happy to help the RIAA when I uploaded a home-made parody of a Justin Timberlake song that I'm now in debtors prison. Thanks a lot!
Just ignore everyone elses posts, there's a very very easy fix.
I too have seen areas with as many as 20 wireless access points in congested areas. You think this would be difficult to overcome but its not because most people aren't that tech savy. Everyone leaves their router on the default channel, which for virtually every brand is channel 6. Try different channels, starting with one higher than six, until you get one where the net is "highly responsive".
I don't really think you're calculating efficiency correctly. By your calculations, something that is twice as efficient as a device thats 80% efficient would be 160% efficient. I'm pretty sure the number would be closer to 90%. Twice as efficient as 90%, I think would be closer to 95% instead of your 320% and so forth...
I'm not really sure of the exact mathematical equation.
10,000 times more efficient does seem pretty ludicrous though.
3. RTFA Nazi. They would generate nanowatts. Thats on top of them supposedly being 1,000 times more efficient than a traditional electrical generator.
I don't think they'll mind because the extra energy required to bend a microscopically thin layer of protein would not cause any noticeable extra strain or require any noticeable extra exertion. The astronaut could work for several hours with the protein suit and come back not feeling any more tired than with a standard suit.
Thats kind of a mute point. The protein layer would be so thin it wouldn't add resistance that any normal person would notice.
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Its quite obvious that the high-strung nut-jobs in Boston over-reacted. The EXACT SAME ads were in Atlanta for a week before they were installed in Boston and on the very first night in Boston people were crying that it was 9/11 times a million!!! They didn't even bother taking the ads in Atlanta down until a couple of days after everybody freaked out in Boston and still not a single person thought they were a bomb.
The ads were also in Atlanta. Some were up for a week, clearly visible and nearby major office buildings. Nobody thought they were bombs. Most were stolen as souvenirs. Some remained up until a couple of days AFTER the Boston freak-out.
Cartoon Network also placed a simmilar number of the Light-Brite ads in Atlanta, Georgia at the same time. Nobody thought they were bombs. Although, they quickly disappeared because people were stealing them as Souvenirs.
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Not only is the "Free Software Foundation" over-reacting, they're displaying an unbalanced reaction compared to how they deal with other Linux distributions. For instance, there's a hardly known company that goes by the name "SCO" which distributes Caldera Linux. This "SCO" is zelously suing Linux in general, claiming they own all code in the universe. Yet, this "Free Software Foundation" is saying jack-squat about Caldera and "SCO".
720p DVD players have been available for a long, long time. Years. But I don't actually know if they look better than 480p DVD players. I'm using a 480p DVD player and the quality is comparable to anything on 1080i "high-definition" cable TV. Even older 480i DVD players are a massive improvement over analog broadcast TV. And why are you even talking about 4x3 formatted DVD's... buy the 16x9 formatted DVD's... genius
Personally I think both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD will fail just like both formats to replace CD's failed. DVD-Audio would have had a chance if they made it compatible with... DVD players! And, coincidentally, I've noticed quite a few CD's (Queen's re-release of "A Night at the Opera" and Weird Al Yankovic's latest album) being put out that include an extra DVD will all the music encoded in 192KHz, 5.1 surround sound and playable on a standard DVD player. Sounds really awesome through my DVD player hooked up by optical audio to my 5.1 Kenwood surround sound system with the TV turned off. Plus more and more cars are being built with DVD video players included, so it should be possible to play just the audio from a DVD and have the video turned off while you drive.
Thats right, not only do I think that standard video DVD's will win the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray war but I think they'll win the next generation Audio-CD war. Don't you call me crazy...
The 6808 micro-controller (long version of the name is M9S08GB60) would be excellent for teaching a class on robotics. As its been around since the dawn of time, there's a lot of support readily available for it. Complete, detailed reference manuals are freely available, Freescale will even ship printed copies to you for free. Compilers are available that allow you to program in your choice of assembly, C, or C+. The "M68DEMO908GB60" demo board is available from many online retailers for around $50 which makes it easier to use the microcontroller for prototyping as well as experimentation and class labs.
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What lends the 6808 microcontroller is its Pulse-Width-Modulation components (it has 2 modules, one with 5 channels and the other with 3 channels and all channels can be set up for either incoming our outgoing). In addition to all that it runs up to 40MHz without cooling and includes 4K of RAM and 60K of ROM all on-die, so no extra chips for those. It has more power than you could ever hope to use in a class-room.
A good example project is available here: http://home.comcast.net/~starwreck/FinalReport.pd
The microwave steralizes the wet sponge because it makes the water hot enough to kill anything living. The same effect can be had by dunking the sponge in a pot of boiling water.
I'm pretty sure all Classic Amigas can run Amiga Linux, a rarely heard of flavor of Linux. And AmigaOne's can run pretty much any PPC Linux without any problems.
Check your Amiga's for NiCad batteries on the motherboard. They are usually green and barrel shaped. You need to remove them as soon as possible
For everyone who says Amiga is a dead platform... if an Amiga is dead then it was probably killed by leaky NiCad battery acid.
I was just reading that the Amiga was used to create the special effects for Star Trek: Voyager (including the intro credits used for the entire duration of the series). It feels like Star Trek: Voyager wasn't that long ago. But I guess its been a while.
My dead-man's switch simultaneously emails, faxes, and snail-mail's irrefutable proof of intelligent alien life to EVERY major blogger in the world. Naturally, major news outlets aren't worthy of this information once I've passed on.
I was going after the PC version... Best Buy, EB Games, and Fry's Electronics in Georgia seem to have all gotten their PC version when the 360 version was supposed to be released.